Cara Jardine

These headlines shape perceptions of prison, but don’t say crime has fallen but prisons have swelled. These reforms are proposed to correct a huge rise in punitiveness which has already happened but has not made communities safer

New article day! Brilliant to work with Diego Ruedas Torres on this.

We chart the limitations of support for families affected by imprisonment from prison-based social work, arguing radical change is needed:

doi.org/10.1177/0264...

Judges reveal regret at handing out indefinite jail terms and call for end to scandal Exclusive: ‘I have been a part of the system that is wrong. I feel that I ought to be part of the system to put it right,’ says one judge who backs proposals to help those trapped under the ‘unfair’ s...

Senior judges reveal regret at handing out ‘unfair’ indefinite jail terms and call for scandal to be ‘put right’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Doing some writing about belonging, memory and music and Ozzy pops up on the nursery run. RIP

Family backs bill to prosecute prisons for custody deaths Labour MP Blair McDougall is calling for Crown immunity in UK prison estates to be abolished.

This is an important opportunity to allow accountability to families who suffer the death of a loved one in #prison

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excited for this today - what can we do to make time in custody better spent and achieve more positive outcomes for people leaving #prison? How can we include all voices in these discussions?

Psyched for this @thesccjr.bsky.social writing retreat today

Read the full inspection here - prisonsinspectoratescotland.gov.uk/publications...

Happy to see prison overcrowding making the media again but this, and finding that 55% of people in custody had witnessed staff abuse of prisoners, makes for concerning reading from HM Inspectorate of Prisons

#inspection #barlinnie

Congratulations - can't wait to read it!

Great to meet our new students last week - wish me luck in my first term as Programme Director!